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March 2013

March 27, 2013

The Found Object: Jason Dodge and Martino Gamper at the AAR

The most spare and conceptually elegant art show offered at the AAR in recent years was two installations by American artist Jason Dodge (in the Art Gallery) and Italian artist Martino Gamper (in the Cryptoporticus).

Brenda Longfellow Contextualizes Recycled Statuary By Visiting the Monuments Where They Stood

Claudia Moser Studies the Archaeological Record of Ritual Sacrifice

Claudia Moser is the winner of the Irene Rosenzweig/Samuel H. Kress Foundation/Helen M. Woodruff Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize in Ancient Studies and a Ph.D candidate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University.

Jerome Lecturer David Mattingly Rewrites Roman North Africa

The 41st annual Jerome Lectures were packed this year as David Mattingly, Professor of Roman Archaeology and History at the University of Leicester, delivered a series of paradigm-busting presentations on Roman North Africa.

William O'Brien Jr. is the Founders Rome Prize Winner in Architecture. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT where he holds the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair, and is the principal of an independent architectural design practice in Cambridge.

Fellow-Curated Art From Top to Bottom in Cinque Mostre

The public spaces of the McKim, Mead and White building were proudly made available to art, and to the city of Rome, on the evening of Wednesday, January 30, when a series of five (actually six) installations was presented as CINQUE MOSTRE.

January 2013

January 31, 2013

Jennifer Knust Deepens Her Understanding of Late Antique and Early Medieval Christians

Jennifer Knust is the ACLS/Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow in Ancient Studies, an Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins and an Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University.